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Mobilemonday Shanghai tackled the issue on April 23, 2007.

Over 450 Mil mobile subscribers in China, but how many really access internet content on their tiny phone screen?

Research shows than less than 10% do it regularly. Low bandwidth is the convenient culprit as 3G has yet to be deployed here, but what about user-friendliness, tailor-made content and simply readability for smaller screens? Microsoft Deepfish, Yahoo! Go 2.0, Nokia Widsets, Openwave Mobile Widgets, Opera Mini, ZenZui are a host of new solutions addressing the very needs, and for some provide an integrated user experience, encompassing mobile community, mobile RSS, search and other contents.

Three key players, Nokia, Openwave and Opera, will help us understand how they have done it, what problems are still lingering, and how they finally hope to drive usage.

• Ding Gang (Mike), Widsets China Director, Nokia.

Mike joined Nokia Emerging Business Unit in 2004. Mike has 15 years IT/Telecom experience in China, US and Asia serving multinational companies Intel, HP and Nokia. Recently before joining Nokia, Mike worked in the VC industry in China

About Widsets – www.widsets.com

Widsets provides an easy and exciting way to access Web content and service from the mobile phones.
WidSets enables users to download mobile applications known as “widgets” — from mobile versions
of Wikipedia to news and hot online community topics — to their mobile phones. Users can then access their selections through a single interface without having to launch each site directly. Besides, users could create their own widgets and share them with others.

About Nokia – www.nokia.com

Nokia is a world leader in mobile communications, driving the growth and sustainability of the broader mobility industry. Nokia connects people to each other and the information that matters to them with easy-to-use and innovative products like mobile phones, devices and solutions for imaging, games, media and businesses. Nokia provides equipment, solutions and services for network operators and corporations.

• Gordon Tsang: Asia Pacific Area Vice President of Openwave

Gordon brings 17 years telecom knowledge to Openwave. Prior to joining Openwave he held the Regional Director’s position at Magic4 where he successfully helped to develop its mobile messaging business in the Asia Pacific region. Gordon assisted Zi Corporation to expand its text input solutions across APAC region. Openwave acquired Magic4 in July 2004 and Gordon became Asia Pacific Area Vice President of Openwave. Gordon focuses on the Client Software business of Openwave. Now there are already over 1 billion phones shipped with Openwave browser software.

About Openwave – www.openwave.com

Openwave Systems Inc. is the leading independent provider of software solutions that ignite mobility for the communications and media industries. Openwave empowers its customers to rapidly transform their business by sparking new revenue streams and market opportunities, building loyal subscriber communities and reducing operational costs. Openwave’s broad range of IP-based handset-to-network solutions enable the rapid launch of information, communication and entertainment services across networks and devices and include handset software, content delivery, adaptive messaging, location, music and video services. Openwave is a global company headquartered in Redwood City, California.

• Pierre-André Divisia, Chief Representative Opera Software International AS Beijing Representative Office

Pierre-André Divisia, Opera Software’s Chief Representative for Beijing Office, is responsible for Opera’s Operations and Business Development in Greater China (Taiwan, Hong Kong)

Pierre-André holds a Master of Science degree from the Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Commerciales d’Angers (ESSCA – France) and trained at the International Trade Institute (Hsinchu, Taiwan). He began his career in Hong Kong working for luxury trading company Balenciaga before joining the Fujitsu Group in 1995 where he held various positions in the UK, Japan and the US. He later joined Globalstar Satellite Telecommunications as Chief Representative and Regional Director for Western Europe, based in Paris.
In 2003, Pierre-André started working in the embedded software industry where he secured significant contracts with tier-one Operator and Manufacturers in Europe before moving to Beijing with his family in January 2005.

Pierre-André and his wife, Chen Jare-Ying, have two daughters and a son. Weather permitting, Pierre-André is a keen surfer and avid windsurfer.

About Opera Software ASA – www.opera.com

Opera Software ASA has redefined Web browsing for PCs, mobile phones and other networked devices. Opera’s cross- platform Web browser technology is renowned for its small size, performance and standards-compliance, while giving users a faster, safer and more dynamic online experience. Opera Software is headquartered in Oslo, Norway, with offices around the world. The company is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol OPERA.

Mobilemonday Shanghai is looking for additional sponsors and partners!

MobileMonday is a community of mobile, media and internet professionals, which promotes the mobile and digital industries and fosters cooperation and networking among industry people and their companies by providing opportunities for personal and virtual contacts.

As a non-profit organization, we exist thanks to the generosity of our sponsors and partners. In return, we provide unprecedented local coverage (live and online) and global reach (through our networking with mobilemonday chapters around the world).

Mobilemonday Shanghai has met an immediate success since its inception in October 2006, filling a long-term need (we can even say void) for accessible and regular networking event in the Shanghai and Region telecom and digital industry. Thanks to your renewed interest and positive feed-back on past events, we thrive to do better, more punchy and interesting every new event.

Popularity comes at a price – cash (more guests = more room, more drinks etc). Why not becoming our partner in your turn and helping us “keep up the good work”? In return, we garantee you/your company significant online and live coverage for several months on the local and regional telecom and Media scene.

If interested, please contact either of us (Bruno, Sage or Ranjit) offline or at our next event, and let’s chat!

The Mobilemonday Shanghai team.

04/23/2007 06:30PM at Kathleen's 5 restaurant and bar